Psalms 103:13-17

13Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.

14For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.

15As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

16For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.1

17But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children;